Chapter 64: The Day of Jingrui, Seven Warriors Slay the Immortal!

“Th… th… this…”

Having lived for decades and forged the illustrious name of the ‘King of Suppressing Martial Arts’, this was the first time Ji Xiongying felt an emotion close to absurdity.

He watched as Lu Yang raised his hand, and a piece of yellow paper with ghostly squiggles would appear beside him. It would ignite, followed by various anomalous phenomena completely unrelated to the Martial Dao—Sword Qi traversing the sky, five thunders striking the crown, golden light flashing abruptly… Every piece of yellow paper brought him fatal danger!

Whoosh—

Sword Qi cut Ji Xiongying’s cheek; lightning struck his body, making him numb all over; and his full-force punch was blocked out of thin air by a streak of golden light.

“Impossible!”

Ji Xiongying retreated again, daring not to engage Lu Yang any further. He could only grit his teeth, looking at Lu Yang before him with fear, yet also with hidden desire.

The next second, a title leaped into his heart.

Immortal!

Lu Yang’s methods at this moment were simply like the immortals in storybooks. This instantly ignited the desire for eternal life in his heart.

Thinking of this, Ji Xiongying widened the distance between him and Lu Yang again and said excitedly: “Wait! There is actually no great enmity between you and me, right? How about this: as long as you join my Imperial Family’s Worship Hall and teach me that yellow paper art, you can choose ten thousand taels of gold or land and titles as you please!”

“Choose as I please?”

Lu Yang shook his head and laughed. I need to choose? The entire Great Zhou is the Saint Sect’s secret realm—it was originally mine! You actually dare to promise me my own things?

“That works too. I am quite interested in the method of the Martial Dao Celestial…”

“This is my Authority Under Heaven!”

Without a second word, Ji Xiongying directly took out a classic and threw it to Lu Yang: “Inside is only half a volume. Give me your technique, and I will give you the remaining half!”

Lu Yang: “…”

Ji Xiongying practically wrote his ambition on his face; naturally, Lu Yang could see it too. However, he didn’t care, and it was even more impossible for him to impart cultivation techniques to him.

After all, this had no benefit for his cultivation of The Sage Steals, and it also violated sect rules.

“What a pity.”

Lu Yang shook his head, put away Authority Under Heaven, gave Ji Xiongying an indifferent glance, and then his figure suddenly dissipated, intending to turn and leave directly.

“Trying to leave!?”

Seeing Lu Yang actually disintegrate from a body of flesh and blood directly into a streak of ethereal white Qi, Ji Xiongying roared in anger, while the desire on his face deepened.

Immortal Art! Absolutely an Immortal Art!

I must obtain it!

“Authority Over the World!”

Ji Xiongying exhaled and shouted. He raised his hand and clenched his five fingers. Rolling blood and Qi boomed into them, turning his entire palm blood-red in an instant.

In a flash, Lu Yang seemed to see a vast landscape of mountains and rivers unfolding slowly before his eyes. Inside were scholars rising at cockcrow to study, farmers resting at sunset, martial artists walking the Jianghu, traveling merchants trading… the hundred states of the mortal world. It was shockingly the national destiny of the Great Zhou, and also the general trend of the world under heaven.

Authority Over the World, also means a Fist Over the World!

Ji Xiongying’s fist momentum had no substance; it was purely mental oppression. It was the spiritual accumulation of Ji Xiongying, this Martial Dao Celestial, having already transcended the Martial Dao.

Only—

“You want to compete with me in mind? I cultivate immortality; I have Spiritual Sense!”

Ji Xiongying’s fist momentum might be invariably successful against uncouth martial artists who only knew how to fight with fists and feet like him, but using it on Lu Yang was futile.

Boom!

With a thought from Lu Yang, Ji Xiongying’s fist momentum shattered instantly. What ‘general trend of a nation’, what ‘vast mountains and rivers’—all were swept away directly by his spiritual sense.

“You can actually catch my fist?” Ji Xiongying gritted his steel teeth: “Again!”

However, what responded to him was a cold sneer.

“stubborn and stupid.”

As his voice fell, dozens of talismans appeared out of thin air. With the Myriad Spirits Banner, he had brought plenty of talismans for this trip and didn’t care about consumption at all.

The talismans shattered all at once, transforming into monstrous Sword Qi that fell upon Ji Xiongying. It made him let out a scream on the spot, dyeing the sky red with blood in an instant. However, a physique comparable to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining was truly fierce; although the Sword Qi Talismans could slice open his flesh, they couldn’t cut through his bones.

By the time the Sword Qi dissipated, Ji Xiongying had turned into a man of blood.

There wasn’t a piece of intact flesh on his entire body, as if he had just been subjected to death by a thousand cuts. He dared not stay in place any longer; in the blink of an eye, he vanished from the spot.

“Ran away quite decisively…”

Lu Yang frowned slightly. This avatar of his specialized in the Martial Dao and relied entirely on talismans to defeat enemies. Although it could fly, its speed was actually not as fast as Ji Xiongying’s.

Lu Yang looked peculiar. The vitality of a Martial Dao Celestial exceeded his expectations. Don’t look at how miserable and wretched Ji Xiongying was; in reality, as long as he escaped alive, he would recover most of his health after resting for a few days… A physique comparable to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, yet without the corresponding physical divine abilities.

“Truly good material for refining a corpse…”

Thinking of this, Lu Yang felt a bit of self-reproach. It was true that one is influenced by one’s surroundings; even a good person like him had become cruel after staying in the Saint Sect for so long.

“…I am not that kind of person.” Lu Yang shook his head.

Besides, refining corpses was too inefficient. Refining them instantly with the Myriad Spirits Banner was undoubtedly more efficient.

Although he said that, Lu Yang had no intention of focusing on this path. After all, when this life ended, he would definitely choose cultivation base, and the Myriad Spirits Banner couldn’t be taken with him.

“Let’s talk about it in the next life!”

Thinking of this, Lu Yang directly dispersed his body, then quietly fell into an alleyway in the capital to reconstitute, thus disappearing into the crowd.

“Sure enough, he lost. But that is normal.”

Tianjing City, Wei Family residence. The Yun Family Ancestor calmly withdrew his gaze. Ji Xiongying’s defeat was within his expectations; rather, it would be strange if he could win.

After all, the purpose of manipulating karma this time for the battle between Ji Xiongying and Lu Yang lay not in winning, but in prompting Ji Xiongying to discover Lu Yang’s existence. Then, let him slowly spread the word, eventually influencing other Celestials, and finally uniting all Celestials to deal with Lu Yang together!

As long as his avatar was slain, there was no worry that his true body wouldn’t appear!

For this purpose, he had long designed a ‘great opportunity,’ or rather, a bait. All that was missing was a fish taking the hook. Now was an excellent opportunity.

Thinking of this, he immediately began to manipulate karma again.

Almost simultaneously, Ji Xiongying, who had just escaped with his life and dared not even return to the Imperial Palace, fled toward the outskirts of the capital. He was currently hiding inside a mountain forest.

His original intention was merely to hide from Lu Yang.

However, while hiding, he ‘accidentally’ found a sealed stone chamber inside a hidden mountain cave. Inside sat a skeleton.

“This is…”

Ji Xiongying walked up to the skeleton and saw it holding a dust-covered classic in its hands. He immediately reached out to take it, opened it, and glanced at it casually.

“…Hm!?”

With just this glance, Ji Xiongying’s eyes instantly widened. Subsequently, disbelief and ecstasy appeared on his face: “Heaven is truly helping me!”

The author of the book was nameless, and the content was merely a record: “There are immortals in the world, unaging and undying. Kill them and eat their flesh to obtain eternal life… Alas, immortal arts are supreme and difficult to overcome. I studied painstakingly for decades, and before death, finally realized a method to slay immortals… It must be on the Day of Jingrui; seven great masters wielding Seven Divine Weapons must join forces to lay a formation to have a chance of victory…”

The Day of Jingrui, Seven Warriors Slay the Immortal!

Aside from the causes and consequences, the book also recorded the forging methods for the “Seven Divine Weapons.” Ji Xiongying read it entranced, his ambition ignited once more.

“Hahahaha! This King indeed possesses great opportunity and great luck!”

“If I kill that immortal, I will surely gain eternal life!”

Amidst his laughter, Ji Xiongying’s consciousness became increasingly obsessed. Karma blinded his true heart, leaving him with no other thoughts besides “Slay Immortal, Gain Eternal Life.”

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